Firstborn Baby Girl

I think I may have mentioned before that I'm about 56 blog posts behind...

OH.MY.Goodness

It's because I want to spend a bulk of my time editing and processing through the sessions so that I can get galleries out quickly...

but, my blogging gets put on the backburner...

I'm skipping wayyyyy ahead in that line up to blog about this family...

They have a baby girl...it's their firstborn...

baby makes three...

I had ONE baby girl once...just me, hubby and our sweetpea...

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO to be exact...

She's going to become a TEENager this coming week...

And when I saw these images on my computer screen, I couldn't help but be nostalgic...

My girl was once this small...with big eyes and blowing raspberries...

She packs her own lunch and does laundry by herself now...

My, how time changes things...

I watched this couple interact with their little girl...

how she loves them both, and feels safe when they are near...

how she is the center of their world right now...and they'd do anything for her...

and how, little by little, they will teach her to be independent...and not "need" them so much in the future...and oh how that sometimes hurts to let go...when all you want to do is hold them close and block every pain or challenge that could possibly come their way...

but right now...

in this moment of "she's not yet one year old"...they can bask in her dependence...in her security and confidence in them...they can protect and pour into her every ounce of love & character as the moments pass by...

thirteen years go fast friends...and I know that this young family understands this better than most...they know to cherish the moments...how to invest in relationships and time together...they "get" it...of that I have no doubt!

It's been a beautiful fall...and what a sweet reminder...